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...help donors learn more, Carl Bakal, a public relations executive and sometime social critic, has written Charity U.S.A., a $16.95 investigation into how the money is raised and where it goes. Says Bakal, explaining why he wrote the book: "Where the cause is noble, how the money is spent is never questioned. I don't want people to stop giving. I just thought questions should be answered because they were giving so blindly...
...Bakal writes mostly of the $21.2 billion that pours into educational, cultural, health, social welfare, environmental and other nonreligious causes. Corporations give about 10% of the total. More than 80% of the donations come from individuals, who, Bakal concludes, are usually unaware, for instance, that an average of 21? of each charity dollar they give to health causes is spent on fund-raising costs and overhead. He notes that over the eleven-year period that ended in 1974, the Asthmatic Children's Foundation, according to Bakal, collected $9.9 million, but only about $1.4 million of that ever went...
...snipers began shooting in the ghettos. Halsey has also expanded a regular feature called "The Armed Citizen," which reports the derring-do of shopkeepers and housewives who have gunned down intruders. "Of course, the column omits stories of innocent people who are killed in these encounters," notes Carl Bakal, author of The Right to Bear Arms, a book critical of the gun trade...
...RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, by Carl Bakal. Like many polemics, this angry book is flawed by errors and exaggerations, but it offers unnerving evidence that U.S. gun laws are in an ineffective muddle and that sterner controls are needed to keep firearms out of irresponsible hands...
...correct when you say, in reviewing Carl Bakal's The Right to Bear Arms [July 29], that the U.S. of 1966 has no marauding redcoats or redskins. But unfortunately we do have the Black Muslims, Hell's Angels, the Ku Klux Klan, etc. Since the beginning of time, man has needed to defend himself. To deny the honest citizen easy access to firearms is to deny him a life without fear...